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...When Grover Cleveland was secretly operated on for cancer of the jaw and mouth on board the yacht Oneida as it cruised on Long Island Sound, the public was told that the President had had some bad teeth extracted. The public did not know about Woodrow Wilson's stroke, nor were voters told about Franklin Delano Roosevelt's failing heart. John F. Kennedy spoke to intimates of "my Addison's disease," but the public was told that he had "a partial adrenal insufficiency." Dwight Eisenhower was the exception. After he was felled by a heart attack...
...temperament Gainsborough I was an ideal society portraitist. "His conversation was sprightly, but licentious," one of his friends remembered. "The common topics, or any of a superior cast, he thoroughly hated, and always interrupted by some stroke of wit or humour ... so far from writing, [he] scarcely ever read a book-but, for a letter to an intimate friend, he had few equals." He loved music, and entertained his friends by playing the harpsichord and the viola da gamba. "Liberal, thoughtless, and dissipated," he called himself, and admired (without particularly envying it) the application of sturdier and more evenminded talents...
...also brought the stickwomen back from the 1-0 deficit they had incurred when Bruin Denise Dimitre connected on a penalty stroke...
...second consecutive game, the Crimson suffered field hockey's equivalent of capital punishment, the almost-automatic penalty stroke. Once again, the opposition converted, as Demitre rolled a grasshugger past goalie Betty Ippolito's outstretched left hand to give the Bruins the lead...
...Radcliffe eight also suffered from a lack of nearby crews. Stroke Katie Kelley felt that the eight moved amazingly well, "considering all of the open space behind us. We had no one to hold...